What has Bush done to help/hurt you personally?

Question

I read an aswer where someone said a Bush policy made them lose their job. That got me to thinking of the partisan answers on Yahoo and I realized that his presidency has not really impacted my life. I have benifited from the tax cuts somewhat and I suppose an arguement could be made on oil prices. But over all my standard of living has not changed.

So my question is basically how has his policies effected you and the way you live?

Answer 1

You may not get a lot of REAL answers to this question. To me, he has lowered my tax burden and I assure you I am not in the top 1%.

He has given more control to local school districts so that local schools run according to the community.

He has nominated judges and Supreme Court Justices that will uphold the Constitution and not legislate from the bench.

I feel safe knowing that if there is a threat against the USA, he will not hesitate to defend our country and do what is politically expedient.
I got a great interest rate on my home.

If the Democrats and some liberal Republicans would not keep blocking social security reform, I could pay part of my social security to a retirement account and let it grow until retirement and pass it on to my heirs when I die.

Democrats and some liberal Republicans also are keeping school choice from happening, where I could take the money I pay to the public school system and afford to send my child to the school of my choice, including private school.

He makes me feel good about my public speaking!

Answer 2

Well I just retired from the Military and I know people very much blame Bush for alot of stuff. But I cant see where Bush ended up making someone lose their job, policies are set for reasons. Now about the oil prices. I think that people here in the US and Military bases overseas should not buy (purchase any form of gas for at least 2 days. This will help bring fuel prices down. But everyone has to do it on the same days. I don't know if people a listening but the prices on the barrel are dropping and the prices at the pumps are going up.

Answer 3

YOU'VE GOT TO TO BE JOKING!!!

How quickly everyone has forgotten September 11, 2001. Let's see, when was it that the WTC was previously attacked? 1993 or 1996? Anyway, all that Bill Clinton did was lob a few missiles into Africa. Who knows what little he or Al Gore would have done after 9/11. But Bush had the balls to go into Afghanistan and attack and disrupt Al Queda and the Taliban. And there has not been another attack on US soil since, but many others around the world. I personally feel much safer knowing that we don't have a p*ssy leading and protecting us.

Answer 4

I dont think he affected me personaly.Im just like many others who just dont like the way things have been since he has been in office. But do i think things would have been different had Kerry took office? No not really but he probadly would have had more passion for the all hurrican victims, would have tried not to go towards war fare with Iraq and among other things. So me no hasnt affected me as a person but everyone as a whole.

Answer 5

Bush has embarrassed my nation by sanctioning torture and the imprisonment of people without any due process.

He has rolled back essential environmental protections for the short-term profits of other greedy Americans.

He has committed our nation to a war of aggression without sufficient cause that has resulted in the deaths of many Americans as well as the maiming of thousands more. And he is able to keep a straight face as he asks more Service Men and Women to step up to the plate. A generation of Americans are putting themselves in harm's way for a conflict that need not have been fought and yet they do so without regret, without hesitation and with a fervent devotion for their nation. Woe to the men who will one day face their wrath for having misused this sacred devotion.

Answer 6

...must be nice to be rich

because of him, I'm paying $2.89 for a gallon of gas. He doesn't care anything about education so he raised the Pell Grant (which I don't qualify for, by the way) a whopping $50. According to financial aid blowhards, I "make too much money" and I have to pay my own way through college. Nevermind that I pay rent, utilities and a car payment. I thought we were supposed to help those who help themselves. Damn, I guess I should have dropped out of high school, had 10 babies and lived off the system for the rest of my life, that's the only way to benefit in this country in the state that it's in. Only one of two extremes make it, the dirt poor and the filthy rich. I'm merely the working poor. Yeah, sucks to be me.

Answer 7

Not a thing either way. And that is the way I like it. Keep the gov't as far from me as possible in terms of my private life.
Some of the things Bush is doing, his administration is handling poorly, but some of these issues are difficult to handle as they have been left to fester by the previous administration.

Answer 8

He's allowed:
My phones to be tapped
My emails to be read
My house to be searched
My bank accounts monitored
My energy costs to skyrocket
Started an illegal and Immoral war
Thousands of US and Iraqi deaths
Tortured in My name
Held THOUSANDS of people with no charges
Osama bin Laden remains free
North Korea to build nukes and missiles to get them here
and I'm pretty sure he ran over my dog last week.

But other than that.... no effect at all

Answer 9

Being in Australia, Our prime minister is bush's lap dog and does anything he asks! But apart from the sky rocketing price of fuel all bush does is make me laugh when he says dumb things on the news which is every time he's on!!!

Answer 10

none... any any real way or form... my cousin went to Iraq, but we aren't particularly close, not that I don't like him... may be taking more time at the air port, but that's not really Bush...

I mean, I can't think of a way any president has hurt/helped me ever... so I would be a bit of a fool to base my opinion on that...